Your child learns their first words in Spanish before they can read – because a little beaver needs their help.

The playful Spanish course for children aged 4 to 7 – no reading, no writing, no pressure.

Lina, a little beaver, travels through a colourful world and needs your child's help. Lina speaks English, shows your child what to do, asks and cheers – your child listens, taps, repeats and moves about. In the browser – on tablet, phone or computer. No adverts, no in-game purchases, no child account.

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  • Made for children who cannot read yet. Lina explains everything with her voice; every task works through pictures, listening, tapping, speaking or movement.
  • A beaver instead of a test. Your child is not being quizzed – Lina needs help. A wrong try is simply another question.
  • Speaking from the very start. Your child repeats the words – if you like, switch on the microphone and Lina listens to your child and cheers.
  • Always a different game. Searching, feeding, dressing up, counting, memory, puzzles, lightning round, thumbs up – a dozen types of game take turns.
  • Rewards, never punishments. Stickers, treasures and new tricks for Lina keep being added and are never lost. No hearts, no penalties, no leaderboards.
26
lessons with 156 words in Spanish
in 22 lovingly designed scenes

It's this simple – a lesson takes about five to eight minutes

1

Tap a station

On the path through Lina's world, your child picks the next station. Lina does everything else: she says hello, tells the story and shows the way.

2

Listen, point, repeat

Six new words per lesson, each with a picture and a voice. Lina asks, your child taps, repeats, moves about or helps Lina search.

3

Find the treasure

At the end of every lesson there is a treasure for the chest – and the new words go into the book as stickers. Next time, Lina first briefly goes over what was learnt before.

Every lesson a different game – real screenshots from the course

Variety matters! That's why the types of game keep changing, and each one practises listening, pointing, speaking or moving.

Hide-and-seek game: animals peeking out from behind bush and tree
Listen & Point

Who's hiding?

Lina calls an animal in Spanish – your child finds it behind bushes, trees and hills.

Feeding game: fruit is placed in Lina's bowl
Do

Fill Lina's bowl

Lina asks for her fruit in Spanish – the right piece goes into the bowl and stays there in plain sight.

Dressing-up game: paint buckets in the art corner, Lina gets a hat and scarf
Do

Colour Lina's hat

Lina names a colour in Spanish, your child taps the paint bucket – hat, scarf and bobble turn colourful.

Counting game with apples
Listen & Point

Count with Lina

Lina counts apples from one to ten in Spanish – your child listens and counts along.

Thumbs-up game: does the word match the picture?
Listen & Point

Is that right?

Lina says a word for a picture that fits – or doesn't. Thumbs up or down, and Lina reveals the answer.

Sound memory game: turn over cards and find the pairs
Listen & Point

Two of a kind

Memory with picture and sound: turn over, listen, find the pair.

Lightning round with stars and a timer bar
Listen & Point

Lightning round

Tap fast, collect stars – a short sprint for revision, with no penalty for taking your time.

Picture puzzle: tiles reveal a picture
Listen & Point

Picture puzzle

Tile by tile a picture appears – whoever recognises it taps and says the word.

Say it back: Lina says a word, the child repeats it
Speak

Say it back

Lina says it first, then it's your child's turn. If the microphone is on, Lina listens to your child and cheers – with no marks at all.

Counting game: how many cows are there?
Speak

How many can you see?

Lina shows three cows – your child counts and says the number in Spanish. If the microphone is on, Lina hears the answer.

Sequence memory game
Listen & Point

Remember the order

Lina shows cards one after another – your child taps them back in the same order.

Apple picking: pick exactly as many apples as Lina says
Do

Pick me some apples

Lina says a number in Spanish – your child picks exactly as many apples from the tree as Lina says, then taps on Lina.

On phone and tablet in landscape mode – like a little TV you can touch

No app store, no installation: the course runs in the browser, full-screen on phone and tablet. Sound and microphone work on Android phones and tablets just as they do on iPhone and iPad.

Phone in landscape: Lina's path with its stations
Lina's pathEvery station is a lesson, nothing gets lost
Phone in landscape: hide-and-seek game
Hide-and-seekBig tap areas for little fingers
Phone in landscape: feeding
Fill Lina's bowlLina speaks, your child adds the right thing
Phone in landscape: treasure chest
Treasure chestOne treasure per lesson, and with every fifth one Lina learns a new trick

How children learn Spanish with Lina

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Voices instead of letters

Lina speaks English with a natural-sounding AI voice; the words in Spanish come from a native-speaker AI voice (Microsoft Azure; for English: British English). Every word has a picture – your child links sound and meaning directly, without going via letters.

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Repeating instead of watching

After every word, Lina pauses so your child can say it too. If you like, switch on the microphone: Lina listens and cheers – there are no marks and no red crosses.

Every lesson is a little story

Lina looks for her animals, packs her fruit, wraps up warm, colours in a picture and tidies away her toys – and your child helps with the right word in Spanish. That way even a four-year-old understands why they should speak.

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Revision without anyone noticing

From the second lesson on, every lesson starts with a short reminder round. The 156 words keep coming back in ever new games – so they are practised again and again, with no vocabulary book.

Collect, celebrate, learn tricks – everything is kept

Sticker book with the words collected so far

The sticker book

Every word learnt becomes a sticker. Tapping it says it once more – for browsing with no task attached.

Treasure chest with the treasures collected so far

The treasure chest

One treasure per lesson. With every fifth treasure, Lina learns a new trick – dancing, galloping, cheering … – and there's a revision game.

Lina's path with stations and sun streak

Lina's path and the sun streak

The path shows how far Lina has come. One sun for every day of learning; seven suns fill the first row, then come moons, shooting stars and more. Nothing is ever lost – the sun chain only rewards, a break is never punished.

For parents: safe, ad-free, no sign-up for your child

Parents' area with tips for joining in
The parents' area is the only place with text: the words of the lesson with their meanings and a tip for joining in at home.
  • No adverts, no in-game purchases. All stickers, treasures and tricks come only through playing.
  • No child account, no sign-up. Progress is saved to your access link – your child carries on from the same spot on tablet, phone or computer.
  • Microphone only if you want it. Parents enable the microphone once; then Lina listens to your child saying the words. The short spoken snippet is sent to the speech recognition service (Microsoft Azure) and is not stored.
  • No comparison with other children, no leaderboards, no penalties. Mistakes have no consequences, Lina simply asks again.
  • Breaks are part of it. After 15 minutes, Lina suggests a break all by herself.
  • A tip for parents with every lesson. From the parents' card: at mealtimes, ask for the word for apple in Spanish – that's how the words find their way into everyday life.

What it can look like in your home

Three examples of how an afternoon with Lina can go

After nursery

Your child taps Lina's path, and the next station is already marked. Lina explains what's on today, and the game begins – you don't need to read anything aloud or set anything up. Five to eight minutes later, the lesson is done.

Saying it together

Lina says the word for cat and leaves time to repeat it. Your child can join in out loud straight away or just listen at first – both are perfectly fine. The microphone is optional: if you switch it on, Lina listens.

At dinner

Every lesson comes with a small tip on the parents' card, for example: at mealtimes, ask for the word for apple. That way your child meets the new word away from the screen too – and you know what they are learning right now.

Lina compared

Children's course with LinaMany learning appsChildren's book / audio story
Works without reading✔ everything read aloudoften only partly (typing, dragging words)✔
Your child speaks✔ repeating, microphonerather rarelyno
Movement games✔mostly nono
Adverts / in-game purchasesnoneoften (subscription, hearts, shop)none
Pressure from hearts, penalties, leaderboardsno – mistakes have no consequencesfrequentlyno
Costone-off, no subscriptionmostly subscriptionone-off

Frequently asked questions

What age is the course for?

For children aged about 4 to 7. Everything is read aloud; no task requires reading or writing. Younger children do best with a parent sitting alongside. The contracting party and user of our service is always an adult (a parent or other legal guardian), who decides whether and how their child uses the course.

Does my child need to know any Spanish already?

No. Lina starts with saying hello and leads through 156 words from a child's everyday life in 26 lessons: animals, fruit, colours, numbers, body, family, weather, toys and more.

How long does a lesson take?

About five to eight minutes. After 15 minutes, Lina suggests a break all by herself. The lessons stay open; your child can play each one as often as they like.

Does my child need their own account or an app?

No. The course runs in the browser on tablet, phone and computer. There is no child account: progress is saved to your access link. That's why it carries on from the same spot on any device – simply open the link from your order email. To do this, we store the progress on our server and set a technically necessary cookie; details are in the privacy policy.

We switch between tablet and phone – does that work?

Yes. Progress is tied to your access link, not to the device. Open the link from your order email on the other device, and Lina carries on exactly where she left off.

What if the email with the access link is gone?

Just drop us a line – we'll send you the link again. Your progress is kept.

Can we reset the progress?

Yes, in the parents' area with a single tap. That's handy if a younger sibling wants to start from the beginning.

What happens with the microphone?

The microphone is optional. After a one-off permission, Lina listens to your child saying the words and recognises whether the word came across – no marks, no red cross. Only the short spoken snippet is sent, encrypted, to the speech recognition service (Microsoft Azure, data centre in the EU); recordings and recognised text are not stored.

Where do Lina's voice and the pictures come from?

The voices are AI voices from Microsoft Azure; the pictures are drawn with AI assistance and checked by our editorial team. There are no adverts, no in-game purchases and no third-party children's content; for speech output and speech recognition we use Microsoft Azure.

Is the course available for other languages too?

Yes. This page describes the Spanish course. The same course is also available for many other languages to learn – with the same games, and Lina always accompanies your child in English. You'll find the other languages in the course overview.

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Spanish children's course with Lina

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  • 26 lessons, 156 words, 22 scenes
  • A dozen types of game in rotation
  • Natural-sounding AI voices, speaking along with the microphone
  • Sticker book, treasure chest, Lina's tricks
  • Parents' area with tips for joining in
  • Tablet, phone and computer – in the browser
  • 10 years of guaranteed access
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